1. Bell Work – 8/24/16
What were some of the main themes in Langston Hughes’ poems?
Why was his work important? What impact did it have on its readers?

2. Pre-Writing
Prewriting is the first stage of the writing process and the point at which we discover and explore our initial ideas about a subject.
Prewriting helps us to get our ideas on paper, though not usually in an organized form, and brainstorm thoughts that might eventually make their way into our writing.

3. Pre-writing strategies
Brainstorming
Much like freewriting, brainstorming involves capturing all of the thoughts, ideas, and fragments in your head and writing them down on paper. Often, brainstorming looks more like a list while freewriting may look more like a paragraph. With either strategy, your goal is to get as many ideas down on paper as you can. 
Example: brainstorming for a prompt over the importance of a helping the environment        
Problems
Future
Cars
Alternative fuels
Hybrid cars
Costs
Benefits?

4. Pre-writing strategies
Clustering or mapping
With this technique, you start with a circle in the middle that contains your main idea and then you draw lines to other, smaller circles that contain sub- ideas or issues related to the main idea. Try to group like ideas together so as to organize yourself.

5. Clustering/mapping example

6. Clustering/mapping example

7. introduction Components of the Introduction: Hook Broad Statement
More Specific Statement
Thesis Statement – Include 3 Points

8. Body paragraphs Each body paragraph should contain:
Transition words or phrases (Use transition words – Furthermore, In addition to, Secondly)
Topic Sentence (introduces what will be the topic for that specific paragraph)
3 Details (Evidence, commentary)
Concluding Sentence (wraps up what you have discussed in the paragraph)

9. conclusion Components:
- Begin with rewording your thesis statement in one to two sentences.
- Make a more broad statement over your topic.
- Leave your reader with something to think about. This can be a question, a profound statement, a statistic, etc.

10. Exit ticket
What are the components of an introduction?